Urban Latin America: Life In The Megacity

Last year Sérgio Cabral, governor of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro State, praised the Colombian government’s success in reducing violence in

The date was October 15, 1994, 60 years after the end of the first U.S. occupation of Haiti. Exiled President

In the name of free enterprise, freeways, and the freedom to buy, city air has been made unbreathable. The car

"Those who know about ancient Greece," says Eduardo Galeano in his essay on the auto-centered city, "say the city was

By leaving all of Buenos Aires' projects half-finished, the current crisis has begun consolidating fragments: pieces of the future like

By selling, working, playing, socializing and relaxing in the space around their homes, the working-class Latinos of East LA have

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Culture and Politics ean Franco's article [Septem- ber/October 1994] on how tele- vision and popular music have displaced the printed

Mexico City and Los Angeles should look to one another. Mexico City needs LA's technology, LA's space, LA's respect for

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Social Struggles and the City: The Case of Sio Paulo Edited by LOcio Kowarick, Monthly Review Press, 1994, 269 pp.,